Last updated: 19 august, 2010 - 17:37 GMT
French Roma deportations: dissent within Sarkozy's party
French police have been taking a census of people and caravans at illegal camps
There is dissent within the ranks of the French government, as the first Roma, or Gypsies, to be deported as part of President Sarkozy's latest clampdown arrive back in Romania.
M Goulard says he is shocked by some of his colleagues' remarks
Not all of the members of the president's own party are happy with what's increasingly being criticised as a populist campaign to score votes among those who would like to see France completely cleared of the camps.
Seven hundred Romanian travellers have been detained since French police started raiding and dismantling unauthorised camp sites, and some of them have already arrived in Bucharest.
Francois Goulard, from President Sarkozy's own governing party, the UMP, tells Europe Today why he finds the President's policy ill-thought-out and inhumane.
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First broadcast 19 August 2010
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